#theluckoftheclaws

[adobe-outdesign]

Can you do absol or inciniroar line for the common names?

(Already did Absol, check the original posts)

Litten, Torracat, and Incineroar? Don’t be silly, those are just a

[archer-kacey]

I would so love to see indigo park art from u (responding to the tags of ur other post)

ok (planning to do more but idk when ; _ ;)

[himochiart]

Commission for @theluckoftheclaws of his character Noah!

[Commission info here]

[realm-sweet-realm]

😨 Henry?

A fear headcanon. List here.

After a good amount of time in the loops, Henry began to fear change. He'd developed his routines to get him through each cycle with as little pain as possible, and so any disruption was unsettling. Moreover, it often seemed as though Joey was vengeful and was just coming up with new ways to torment him, or at least, new ways of reliving the past that made the studio more dangerous far more often than they made it more forgiving.

For that reason, when the cycle broke abruptly due to no action of his own, Henry wasn't relieved. He was wondering what Joey was about to throw at him. He was terrified.

[waterloggedsoliloquy]

@theluckoftheclaws said: How do you determine the right animal [for a character's dæmon] (genuine question)

You have unleashed levels of autism the likes of which the world has never seen, jsyk!

Dæmons are not really "this character is sarcastic and lithe and finnicky so they'd be symbolized with a cat". Dæmons are largely determined by their role and symbolism in *art*, and what art it's drawn from depends on where in the story Lyra is. It also depends on their role in the story as a character somebody invented for a purpose. They say that dæmons are your soul that reveals your inner nature, but that's in-universe conjecture. One widely accepted as fact, but one that the narrator never fully claims is true. It's important to remember that characters are tools in a story, and dæmons are signifiers of that role, much in the same way that medieval paintings depicted animal companions alongside humans, to evoke a cultural, spiritual and historical context. To quote Pullman himself: don't make a metaphor do the work of a fact.

For example, in the medieval Oxford, the dæmons all take the form of animals that would have been known to medieval scholars, and their implications carry their symbolic meanings of the time. Jordan college is full of ravens, moths ermines, cats, hawks, setters, and serpents-- and also there are a few creatures, such as basilisks and small dragons-- that would have been imaginary to us but very real to medieval scholars. The only dæmon not of European origin is Lord Asriel's dæmon Stelmaria, who is in the form of a snow leopard,  evoking Asriel's infatuation with the North and giving us a subtle clue about the fact that he fits poorly in Jordan society. It's not until Lyra meets Mrs. Coulter and goes to London that the variety of dæmons expands, and when it does it expands into the art of the rennaissance and Flemish art. Pugs, parrots, monkeys, and butterflies are found in London. When Lyra travels north, she meets people with wolf and snow goose and snowshoe hare dæmons.

Ermines represent young girls born into nobility and their spiritual purity, so Lyra, who is innocent and nobleborn, often has Pantalaimon in the shape of an ermine. The fact that weasels are considered sneaky liars (as Lyra is) comes secondary to me, in my personal opinion. The servants in The Golden Compass are described as all having dog dæmons, because Lyra's world operates on a strict hierarchy of class, and the Butler and Chamberlain are all servants of a story, not really fully-fleshed characters in their own right. Conversely the characters like Asriel and Coulter have very "noble" animals associated with high class and exoticism: the aforementioned snow leopard and golden monkey. Dæmons are also amoral-- they don't indicate heroism or villainy. If Pullman made every bad guy's dæmon an animal that we have negative association with, loaded them with snakes and bugs, then everyone in the world could immediate clock who a "bad person" is just by the shape of their dæmon, and life just does not work like that.

If you want to choose a dæmon for a character, you have to take into account the genre you're working in. Poetry (The creator of the Dæmorphing series) utilizes a more scientific approach, matching characters' dæmons to observed animal behavior and biology. This works very well for Animorphs fanfiction, which has a huge emphasis on zoology and the natural talents and traits of animals... and very little to do with art and history and fantasy. But if your work is more on the historical or fantasy side, I'd suggest looking into the symbolic meanings of animals in specific cultures and periods of time to inform your choices. This historical and cultural context is why I'd find it ludicrously difficult to make dæmons for, say, the Star Wars cast, because all the animals in that universe are Imaginary, and even the ones based on real-life animals lack the social+historical+cultural context of dæmons. So I could give them earth animals, but is that immersion breaking? Probably. Same goes for Pokémon.

This level of involvement and research and intertext is usually too complicated for your average ao3 chud though, so you open a fic and you're more than likely to see dæmons pulled from a pool of the same 15 or so animals. So many wolves.... so many big cats........

If it's a series and character i'm familiar with, i'm more than willing to offer suggestions for potential forms! I literally possess several bestiaries and books on animal symbolism.

[noirandchocolate]

Susan and granny weatherwax both could have been finalist contestants, why’d you put them out against each other in the first round?!

I was trying to make matchups where the outcome wouldn't be a foregone conclusion. I figured each of these gals could give the other a run for their money, so that's why I put them together!

More specifically, both are self-possessed women with strict attitudes who are used to winning arguments and fights by cunning and sheer force of will. So what happens when you pit them against each other?

(Plus Granny facing someone who has been a stand-in for Death and who has some of his attributes/powers seemed thematically appropriate.)

At any rate it was hard arranging all the matches to be interesting, so that favorites and the perceived heaviest hitters wouldn't be either knocked out too soon or have too easy a time, and also so that whoever wins in the first round could end up with fun matches in the second one too. There is definitely room for differences of opinion on pretty much all of these and on my seeding, for sure. I might make a post explaining my reasoning for each first-round fight after the voting is closed.

[ind1c0lite]

Wilford and Dark fighting a losing battle against a raccoon

ah the wonders of nature

[mistxmood]

Can you draw Percy (Perhaps with a nice warm drink?)

( @sonaspectrum @theluckoftheclaws )

wouh hello!!! heres ur percy :]